ryanwaggoner

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   by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

   What? That makes no sense...Apple is already effectively outsourcing everything except for the distribution. Furthermore, they're not bound by the bizarre economics of trying to make up for 20 loser albums with 1 spectacular winner; Apple
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   by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

   Why? In order for that to be the case, all the other functions that labels provide need to be: 1. More profitable than what iTunes already does 2. Something that Apple has the expertise to be able to do 3. Worth the risk of labels
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   by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

   Well, I think Apple is going to start a car company, because they already have deals with some car companies to do iPod integration, and all car companies really do is design cars, build them, and put stereo systems in them. I'm sorry, but
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   by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

   Should be: "Help us invalidate an idea." You're always going to think your ideas are awesome, so look for weaknesses, not strengths :)
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   by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

   Humorous, but I think you missed some digits for the 2008 figure, as $3,149,637,318,314,090,000 is "only" 3 quintillion, and it was $119.8 quintillion back in 1940.
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   by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

   I remember reading somewhere that one of the latest generation of the Du Pont or Rockefeller family were somewhat surprised to find out that their trust was just a few million dollars, due to the fortune being spread across so many descenda
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   by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

   I was negotiating the total price of the car. I guess the missing bit of information is the term (both prices were the same) and the amount down (both were $0)....I also don't really finance. Huh? If you don't finance and both of the car
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   by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

   Twitter launched in early 2006, so I'm not sure how I see how this is impossible...
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   by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

   I can see the logic behind what he's saying, but it would only work if you never use any kind of product on your hair, such as gel, styling paste, etc.
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    Quasi-related: There are some people in my neighborhood in San Francisco who have apparently been parking their junky RVs along the curb for years. Occasionally I'll walk past and they'll have a generator out on the sidewalk charging their
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    This is horrible advice. High-school dropouts who leave school at 16 or 17 because they think it's a waste of time rarely end up ahead of anyone, and certainly not by "managing their money right", whatever that means. You scorn a minimum-
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    None of those people are using YellowPages.com over the physical phone book because the aesthetics are better.
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    So...how do you pull it apart? Is this effectively a permanent fastener? If so, how is better than welding or something?
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    Yeah, I made this point really clumsily. What I meant is that the technology for full distance learning being equally effective isn't there yet. Video is probably as close as you can get, but even in that case, MIT's OCW video offerings a
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    It seems so tantalizingly close, doesn't it? To replace the revered institutions of higher learning in this country with laptops and Starbucks cards, throwing the gates of prosperity and knowledge wide open for anyone who cares to partake.
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    Some of those things are interesting, but they're hardly very influential at this point. Are there fewer local bank branches today as compared with 10 years ago? Maybe (though I'd like to see the data), but is it due to online banking or j
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    One of my favorite things about HN is how often I read a well-articulated and reasonable response to a nutjob rant, rather than a response in kind. Kudos and a vote up to you, sir.
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    This isn't that uncommon in the US either: Sears, Macy's, Lord & Taylor, Nordstrom, Saks, Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Dillard's, JC Penney, Bloomingdale's, Marshalls, Albertsons, Kroger, etc. Even Wal-Mart and Kmart carry
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    YCs founders are hardly representative of founders as a whole...not many people over the age of 30 are willing or able to put themselves in a position where they can start a company with $20k. http://www.kauffman.org/Details.aspx?id=1784
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    I'm sorry, but is this really just a handful of anecdotes about individual people who have stopped using Facebook? And this proves what, exactly? Every successful site has had people along the way that stopped using it for one reason or a
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    First, please don't use shortened URLs. Second, here's a few counterpoints: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317142841.ht... http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/12/us/study-raises-the-estima...
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    Haven't tried many technical books yet, but the Kindle is incredible. Highly recommended if you read a lot.
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    Is this a new change? I don't feel like I've ever had a problem viewing someone's full profile, but maybe they define your network so broadly that if you have several hundred connections, it includes almost everyone?
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    No: At least three social gaming companies I know of will be, or already have, hit $50m in revenue in their first three years of business.
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    Thanks so much for posting all this awesome info...very inspiring. we would have been 10x bigger if I hadn't gone to college, so that is my opportunity cost. Can you elaborate on this a bit? Are you saying that your growth curve was shif
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    Zoho quietly did it by getting funding from a source other than VCs. Source? Or is this just conjecture on your part?
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    But Zoho, a company based in Pleasanton, Calif., that offers similar services, is solidly profitable, with revenue of more than $50 million a year. And it has never taken a cent in venture capital or bank loans. I would love to hear from
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    There have always been questions for which Google wasn't the best place. Niche forums, obscure government databases, and even things like HN...I routinely use searchyc.com over Google. Twitter is only slightly more relevant to the wider p
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    I believe that comments at deeper levels (more than 5-6 levels) have the reply link not show up for a certain amount of time, which is a relatively recent change. Even for those, I've found that if you click on the "link" link for that com
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    by ryanwaggoner 17y ago

    Just FYI, there's a "reply" link below each comment to avoid this @-symbol pseudo-threading.